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Do Right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime?

1 Nov , 2014

A 2012 survey of the literature is available here. Some of the peer-reviewed research showing that concealed carry laws reduce violent crime is listed here. For those interested in seeing our debate with Scientific American over whether some of the studies listed below should be included in our list, please see the discussion available here.

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[…] 6) What John Lott actually claimed about the views of economists and criminologists was that the vast majority of published peer-reviewed papers looking at the impact that right-to-carry laws had on US crime rate found that they reduced violent crime rates and the rest of the papers claimed that there was no effect for murder, rape and robbery (see also here). […]

[…] peer-reviewed studies find that Right-to-Carry laws reduce violent crime rates in the U.S. (Source) . All but one other paper, another by these authors, has claimed that Right-to-Carry laws exert […]